Internationally renowned scholars investigate the discourses, practices and perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across a wide range of multicultural, multi-ethnic and cross country experiences. Case studies are included from Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. INDICE: Strange Bedfellows? Critiquing Corporate Social Responsibility; K.R.Raman - Corporate Social Responsibility in the Era of Capitalist Globalization; L.Sklair - Corporate Social Responsibility and the Problem of Human Rights: Who is Protecting Whom?; R.D.Lipschutz - The Opportunities and Limits of Corporate Support for Voluntary Activity in Canada: Evidence from Voluntary Organizations; - P.Bowles F.MacPhail - Indigenous/NGO Alliances Confronting Corporate/State Alliances: The Case of Jabiluka Uranium Prospect; K.Trebeck - Romania ltd. - A Case Study of Irresponsible Conduct in Human Resources; C.Crisan - Extractive Industries and Stunted States: Conflict, Responsibility and Institutional Change in the Andes; A.Bebbington - >From Corporate Accountability to Shared Responsibility: Dealing with Pollution in a Peruvian Smelter Town; F.Li - Beyond Bureaucracies? The Struggle for Self-Determination and Social Responsibility in the Argentine Worker-Run Companies; A.Bryer - Business for Peace, or Peace for Business? The Role of Corporate Peace Activism in the Rise and Fall of Sri Lanka's Peace Process; R.Venugopal - Commercial Microfinance in India: Loan Angels or Loan Sharks; D.Ajit& K.R.Raman - Corporate Social Responsibility, Local Livelihood and Human Rights: The Case of Coca Cola in India; K.R.Raman - Land Acquisition: Impossibility of Corporate Social Responsibility; P.K.Basu - Shifting Terrain of Ethical Trade: Corporate and Civil Society Engagement in South African Agriculture; S.Barrientos A.Kritzinger - Corporate Social Responsibility and the Problem of Human Rights: Who is Protecting Whom; R.D.Lipschutz - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22077-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 24/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés